The usergroup created for us is E2SS2011. Please don't abuse it - I know my inbox can't handle too much more traffic. I'll use it for announcements (deadlines etc.), and if you have questions you think everyone might be wondering about by all means do use it.

When you receive your present, please send me a /msg stating that you received it, and, when you open it, at least a little bit about what you got. I always think it's so cool to find out what weird and wacky (or awesome) stuff we send each other.

Regarding Non-sending

If you have signed up, and you find you can't fulfill your obligation to send a gift to your noder, be it for financial reasons, health problems, time constraints, or whatever other reasons there might be, it's ok. I understand - things happen. Please, all I ask is that you let me know as soon as possible - I have had a bunch of people volunteer to be backups - so I can get your noder reassigned and gifted preferably before Christmas.

I won't be pissed unless you just don't do anything without notifying me. If you drop the ball like that, you will not be allowed to participate next year. I know that many people I hold dear here at E2 are reluctant to join in this year because of previous bad experiences, and I don't want that to continue. I want us to be able to have faith in one another, and depend on each other to fulfill our obligations.< /end rant/lecture/sermon/whatever>

How to sign up

Read the rules above, and know that you can abide by them. Love the rules.

Anyone you don't want to be assigned?(reasons include, but are not limited to: being your SO, someone you despise, someone you had a one-night stand with, someone you previously gifted in a sekrit santa, or any other reason. But don't tell why. This will be kept strictly confidential, of course.)

Other Info

Let's make this fun. I really don't want to have to ask the Ninjagirls to help us out again this year. Ok, I AM a Ninjagirl, and will send the Sooper Sekrit Monkey Death Squad to non-mailers. Mmkay, thanks!

I will be asking my pet god to create a /msg list (E2SS2K11) for all of us. Please don't abuse it.

It might help to place any additional information about you on your homenode. When I assign out people I will send the information you put on the form, but by putting more information they can actually learn a bit about the person they are sending this to.

kevi - says I got 2 cool blow-up animal thingies (not like that, get your mind out of the gutter) and a kick-ass USB drive shaped like a robot whose eyes light up when you plug him in

Ian - says I got the book Hoot, which is awesome, because I love the movie. I got 3 fossil shark teeth, a plastic ant (I think it's supposed to be food for the plastic lizard which is a clue to my secret santa) and a salmon filet. I'm not sure if I can still eat the filet cuz it sat under the Christmas tree for a few days but it's cool to look at anyway (it's got skin and everything).

gwenatrix - says I got 2 presents!! I got a Shaun the Sheep DVD, and then I got a coloring book, some really cool colored pencils and a chocolate letter "M" (for Maya!) - Yum!!!

lizardinlaw - says thank you! I got delicious very chocolate cookies in a nice tin, a snow globe kit, a book written in the 1960s about medical quackery which looks both fun and relevant, gummi-scrabble, a bumper sticker and (scrabble, scrabble) I think there was something else....Fab!

sloebertjesays re E2 Secret Santa 2011: I received my package last week! Unfortunately the envelope arrived already open, so I hope I got everything I was meant to. I received a book, a handmade notebook with a drawing of Santa on the first page and a box of crayons. So, my "crayons" are actually tiny crayon carvings, which I didn't know cuz I don't know what crayolas are supposed to look like. My bad for not noticing that , my Secret Santa put hours into making them!